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Nov 8, 2015

WIWTW #20

But first...

Some News (That I Actually Care About)

Amazon made a pretty major move into becoming a significant player in the movie industry by snagging the distribution rights for Nicolas Winding Refn's Neon Demon. It'll be out next summer and no doubt will make an appearance on Amazon Prime. @Digital Spy

Box office report: After weeks of bombs, I guess everybody was just saving their money to go see Spectre this weekend. With a massive $73 million from 3,929 theatres, that's unfortunately less than the $88 million that Skyfall opened to back in November of 2012. Still, money is money and one can certainly expect that it should hit $1 billion globally by the end of its run. Family targeted The Peanuts Movie did quite well for itself too with a cool $45 million. Made by the same studio responsible for Ice Age, I guess that probably means The Peanuts Movie 2 shouldn't be too far on the horizon. @Variety

Will Warcraft finally be the movie that puts video game movies on the right path towards respectability? Maybe. Director Duncan Jones sure seems to think so. @The Guardian

Apparently, books can be adapted into films before they're even published. That's the story with Zoe Quinn's "Gamergate" memoir that's coming out this September anyway. @Deadline

Here's Richard Linklater with some pretty interesting things to say about the future of film distribution. He's no Tarantino, that's for sure. @Indiewire

Video game giant Activision Blizzard just launched a film and television production arm that they'll no doubt use to develop their many properties such as Warcraft, Call of Duty and more. Honestly looks like video game will be the new superheroes. @Variety

Speaking of which, a movie based on The Witcher video game series will apparently hit theatres in 2017. This one's a little different though since the source material for the games is based on a series of fantasy books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. @GameSpot

Video of the week: Video game is the word, so here's the trailer for Warcraft.

November 1st

What is it: The final entry of Chan-wook Park's Vengeance TrilogyWhat's good: Haunting story that stays with you, eye-catching stylishness, memorable scoreWhat's bad: Takes a bit of time to get things rolling, but once it does...

November 2nd

What is it: A family film that features a dolphin, a dog and Steve Guttenberg What's good: Inoffensive family fareWhat's bad: Not even kids would find anything funny here, animals are way over-directed, lame story

November 6th

What is it: A DC Animated Universe follow-up to Son of BatmanWhat's good: Interesting setup, surprisingly gritty and violent, What's bad: Animation isn't always as good as you'd hope, uneven action sequences, story could be better

November 7th

What is it: Best Animated Short winner that presents the history of instrumentsWhat's good: Interesting art style (UPA inspired), quite funny and surprisingly educationalWhat's bad: Definitely feels its age due to a couple of racist stereotypes